Page 18 - Shining On Newsletter - Spring 2023.pdf

Tuesday 8th November – Half day
ride back to Auckland to drop the bike
off, we were both sorry that this was
the end of the ride and quite
appropriate that we stopped off at the
‘Bugger Café’ as our last coffee stop!
(I’m biting my tongue to stop making
“tractor” jokes, Ba)

Although that was the end of our
motorcycle trip, after a day spent
sightseeing in Auckland and a couple
or more high altitude beers we hired a
‘very sexy’ grey Toyota Rav4 to travel
down the west coast via Hamilton,
Otohanga, New Plymouth and
Wellington, and onto the west Coast
of the South Island travelling through
Motueka, Punakaki, Fox Glacier,

Mount Aspiring National Park. Queenstown,
Milford Sound and Mount Cook before getting
back into Christchurch. On the way to Milford
Sound we took a ‘small’ diversion - to Invercargill,
to visit the Burt Munro Museum Fastest Indian
display at E C Hayes, followed by a visit to
Motorcycle Mecca and the Bill Richardson
Transport World - then back to Christchurch. On the way back we stumbled across the Winton ‘Open
Day’ which included a Classic car display. On the way from Milford Sound to Mount Cook in need for a
comfort break and a coffee we stopped off at the Highland Motorsport Museum Race track near
Queenstown which has ‘Loos with Views’ and very strange but familiar looking urinals!

THE END. Or is it? With so many roads still to ride on both islands including north of Auckland maybe
there’ll be a ‘Trip of a Lifetime’ Part 2. So, watch this space!

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